Show MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL I Graduation Gifts Pose Problem for Teen Alters Aaers Dear Mary Haworth Cynthia is 15 Bill Bin is 17 Bill graduates s soon and IS I taking Cynthia to the senior junior prom I her mother am won wondering ering if tit it would be proper for her to give gives him a graduation gift or would it be better if she didn't N. didn't-N. N. N. N C. C Dear N. N C C. Certainly it would not be bad form for Cynthia to give Bill a modest impersonal graduation gift On the other hand weighing nuances such a gesture probably probably probably ably wouldn't add anything to their delightful friendship and might indeed take something away by discomfiting Bill if he felt that Cynthia with her parents parents' parents parents' parents parents' par par- sanction were thereby figuratively figuratively figuratively fig fig- tying a string to him In general girl boy friendship or romance fares best on an exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change basis which consists of attentions bestowed by the boy and enthusiastically appreciated by the girl Thus for advice I think Id I'd tell Cynthia that a gift isn't necessary that Bill will like her just as much and maybe more if she doesn't doesn t figure in the list of contributors to his graduation booty M. booty M. M H. H |